the default editor is set by lightroom.

When Photoshop Lightroom starts, it checks to see if Photoshop is installed. If it can't find Photoshop, it checks to see if Photoshop Elements is installed. If it can't find either, Photoshop Lightroom disables the Edit In Photoshop command. The Additional External Editor command is not affected.

 

 

 

If you uninstalled Photoshop CS4 after installing Photoshop CS5, some of the data required to Edit In Photoshop could have been removed. Reinstalling Photoshop CS5 fixes this issue.

On Windows, Photoshop Lightroom checks for the Photoshop.exe or PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe keys in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\ directory of the registry. These keys provide the file path to the applications.

On Mac OS, Photoshop Lightroom checks for the com.adobe.Photoshop.plist or com.adobe.Photoshop.Elements.plist files in the user's preferences folder. These files provide the file path to the applications, as well as other OS-related information about the applications. The plist files on Mac OS are created the first time applications are started. The files are also created any time the application is started and the files are not present.

however you can have as many editors as you want as presets.

thought... only the two "primary" have a keyboard shortcut.

Lightroom -> Preferences -> External Editing

http://i.imgur.com/N2s9b.jpg

LR 4.1 takes as second editor (CTRL + ALT + E) the editor i set in the preferences. not the last added editor.

whatever i choose as external editor in the preferences opens the image via CTRL + ALT + E.

Rikk Flohr wrote:

 

Consider this also:

 

The Primary editor is chosen by Lightroom/Adobe Editing software as the most recent version of the most full-featured program installed.  It is accessed via CTRL/CMD E

The editor accessed by CTRL/CMD + Alt/Opt + E is actually the most recent additional external editor installed in the Preferences panel.

 

As a user you cannot specify the Primary. The secondary editor can only be controlled by creating that preset last. The minute you add another external editor, it will replace the secondary.

well yeah.... of course.

that´s what the option in the preferences is for.

but you wrote:

Rikk Flohr wrote:

 

The secondary editor can only be controlled by creating that preset last.